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To: Aquinasfan
I've explained why pornography and prostitution are unnatural and evil many times in this thread.

Your explanations have clearly fallen flat. As has been show, they are based on unproven premises.

Do you believe that theft and murder are evil? Should they be illegal?

If we're using the legal definition of murder, it is evil. If we're talking about killing another human being, that is only evil in certain circumstances. Whether theft is evil is based on the circumstances of the theft. Robbing a bank to feed one's drug habit is evil. Stealing classified information from the Soviets in order to protect the US is not evil.

Why can't I murder someone if I want to?

Because murdering another human being violates that human being's right to live. Of course, we're relying on the legal definition of murder here.

829 posted on 06/02/2004 6:04:15 AM PDT by Modernman (Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -Oscar Wilde)
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To: Modernman
Because murdering another human being violates that human being's right to live.

What right to live? Is this just your opinion? Or is it based on something else? Many people don't see this "right," like federal judges who see a Constitutional right to stick scissors into a baby's skull. What right do you have to impose your value system on them?

If the Supreme Court decides to legalize infanticide, would you oppose their decision? Would it be an evil decision? Why/why not?

864 posted on 06/02/2004 7:55:11 AM PDT by Aquinasfan (Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
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